Patrick Laurence combines an audit of liberalism with a tribute to Peter Brown, one of its finest exponents.
Focus 35 - 3rd Quarter 2004
An inauspicious end to Ngcuka saga: South Africans have reason to be apprehensive over the resignation of Bulelani Ngcuka as the national director of prosecutions. An audit of liberalism – From Brown to Leon: Patrick Laurence combines an audit of liberalism with a tribute to Peter Brown, one of its finest exponents.
South Africans have reason to be apprehensive over the resignation of Bulelani Ngcuka as the national director of prosecutions.
Lawrence Schlemmer reflects on parental and communal attitudes to education in post-apartheid South Africa.
Alan Hirsch provides a synopsis of and insights into government’s campaign to reduce poverty.
Luis Clemens tests Zanu-PF propaganda about bumper crops and finds it wanting.
Lawrence Schlemmer argues that the NNP leadership’s opportunism has adverse implications for democracy.
Joubert Botha offers a different view on how to tackle poverty, including a reappraisal of the Tomlinson Commission Report.
Raymond Louw argues that foreign policy should be consistent with human-rights tenets enshrined in the constitution.
David Welsh, a long-time abolitionist, elucidates on why he still opposes the restoration of the death penalty.